Quotes by Top Management Real management is developing people through work. Agha Hasan Abedi top-managementmiddle-managementreal The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the collapse in time to allow them to get in on the swindle. If Enron executives had shouted, "Head for the hills!" the employees might have had time to sucker other Americans into buying wildly over-inflated Enron stock. Just because your boss is a criminal doesn't make you a hero. Ann Coulter top-managementbosshero One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me. Bill Ford top-managementgrowing-upbelieve . . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . . Buck Rodgers top-managementshouldpeople The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage. C. K. Prahalad top-managementtasksattention Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine. David Ogilvy service-culturetop-managementbusiness To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace. Douglas Conant top-managementwinningappreciation The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs. Gary Hamel renewaltop-managementbelief In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story. Harold L. Vogel top-managementdifferentreality Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet Henry Mintzberg top-managementchangeart If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them. Jack Welch top-managementopportunityinspirational Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas. Jack Welch top-managementcreativitykeys When you don't know what you're doing, fake it. Jill Shalvis funny-motivationaltop-managementfunny-inspirational Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. John D. Rockefeller top-managementleadershipaverage It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below. Joseph M. Juran top-managementqualityimportant The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach. Lee Iacocca top-managementguypeople I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management. Marc Rich top-managementgrowthtwo Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. Paul Hawken top-managementbusinessart You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing. Paul Stanley funny-motivationaltop-managementfunny-inspirational What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification. No explanation. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we'll pay a very nasty price. Peter Drucker top-managementbenefitspeople12»
